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Lending Club’s Terrible Twos

PYMNTS

Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. The consumer credit market has huge potential — trillions and trillions of dollars — and I wanted to ride that winner. I crossed paths with Laplanche back in 2007 and wanted to back him right away,” Petrushka said.

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Anticipation For Amazon’s SMB Lending Disruption Grows

PYMNTS

It was the (initially) small FinTech startups that delivered a collective shakeup to the small business (SMB) lending industry. Technology giants like Google and Amazon , which gained their market muscle from non-finance-related ventures, are slowly stepping into the space. When I look at it from a U.S.

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Investors Balk At Talk Of Alt-SME Lending Collapse

PYMNTS

The alternative small business lending market took home the biggest slice of cake this week with about $33.5 That may not have been surprising this time last year, but today, considering talk of lackluster performance by these innovators — plus recent warnings over a total market collapse — that funding is pretty impressive.

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Commercial Credit Trends – Where to Tread Carefully

South State Correspondent

Lending is getting riskier. This data is critical for pricing, capital allocation, and marketing. For the first time since 2007, we are starting to see material signs of stress in the form of lower cash flows and less debt service coverage. The operative question is when commercial PODs will show a spike.

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A fistful of dollars: transmission of global funding shocks to emerging markets

BankUnderground

Emerging markets (EMs) have become more exposed to the global financial cycle in recent years. Negative liquidity shocks on the other hand constitute a tightening of financial conditions, reducing lending and real investment ( Bruno and Shin (2015) and Avdjiev et al (2018) ). Aakriti Mathur and Shekhar Hari Kumar.

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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

When I first read Standards Needed for Safe, Small Installment Loans from Banks, Credit Unions by the Pew Charitable Trusts that encouraged financial institutions to get back into small ticket consumer lending, I thought “what are they nuts!” So why would banks expand small-ticket, unsecured personal lending? Profitable moxy, though.

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Rising Interest Rates And The Changing Mortgage Market

PYMNTS

Climbing interest rates are taking their toll on the number of consumers in the market for new home mortgages. The Incredible Shrinking Non-Bank Mortgage Lending Market. Unlike banks, these lenders have neither deposits to fund themselves nor (in most cases) other lines of business to buoy them through a slow housing market.

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